The One Wearing You: A Novel of Domestic Dread

You know the setup. New house. New city. A family that hasn't settled yet. The wallswake up.The Webbs arrived at 14 Tillman Branch Road already fractured. 3 peoplecarrying damage so practiced it had started to feel like personality. A dad whomistakes silence for discipline. A mom who has been right for eleven years and learnedto keep it to herself. A daughter, eleven, who has been reading their tension sincebefore she had words for it.The house didn't break them. It found the cracks and pressed in.Marcus catches himself in reflective surfaces. A steady, assured reflection, the kind he has been auditioning for twenty years.Camille starts hearing her worst fears confirmed. Every doubt she ever talked herself out of, returned as fact, in a voice she recognises.Zola wakes at the same hour every night. Not from nightmares. A figure waits in the hallway that moves the way she moves, holds itself the way she holds herself, reaches wherever she is heading before she gets there.The house gets cleaner as things fall apart."The One Wearing You" holds two explanations for what is happening to this family.Both run through every chapter. Both fit every piece of evidence.It won't pick a side, supernatural or psychological, both terrifying.But which is worse?

Pagina's: 202, Paperback, Notion Press